An Idea that Sticks to the Wall...Literally —Cagle
March 2010
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Take Kiev, for example. Ukrainian police there arrested 22 people during a mass free-for-all over control of a government company responsible for printing election ballots, according to the Gulf Times, an English newspaper from Qatar. It seems candidates in the election were accusing each other of trying to fix an upcoming presidential vote.
The fracas began when workers who showed up for their shift at the state-owned Ukrainian printing plant in Kiev and promptly found more than 20 men blocking the entrance. Company workers, security personnel and the interlopers were soon duking it out with fists, boots, metal poles and smoke grenades, according to the Times. Apparently, no dangling chad went unpunched as police had to haul away brawlers en masse.
An observer told the paper that the interfering men had intended to take control of the printing company and produce 1.5 million ballots in order to fix the results of the Feb. 7 presidential run-off between Viktor Yanukovich and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. There were also murmurs about inappropriate shenanigans after a Tymoshenko underling hired a new director of the government printing house.
BETTER STAY AWAY: It took Scottish firefighters more than an hour to extinguish a fire at a facility that formerly served as the home of a printer, Stewarts of Edinburgh, according to the Edinburgh Evening News.
An unfortunate, but unremarkable news brief, except for the fact that it occurred just three months after another fire struck the same building.
Yikes! Nationwide isn't on their side, and I doubt if any insurer from any continent would want to cover that property. But at least Stewarts knew enough to clear out, having already moved to another facility. PI
—Erik Cagle
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